Monthly Archives: July 2007

I worked it out. I’ve been tired a lot lately. There are all sorts of good reasons for this, having to do with seven-year-old girls waking their dads in the middle of the night, recurrent bouts of flu, lack of weight loss etc etc. There’s also been a lot more work at the day job, … Continue reading »

Read Greg Egan‘s very good long novelette “Dark Integers” in the Oct/Nov Asimov’s yesterday. It’s a sequel to his earlier story “Luminous” and features maths geeks saving the universe. For some odd reason it made me think of Charlie Stross’s Laundry stories, which feature a computer geek whose calculations threaten the fabric of reality. Is … Continue reading »

Dear readers, I have ignored you of late, not posting regularly, for which I apologise. There are many reasons for this – family illness, sudden arrival of manuscripts that needed turning around quickly, demands of the day job, and so on and so forth. None of which should matter, but do. I have been meaning … Continue reading »

The guys over at Night Shade are having a sale. This is a chance to get all kinds of booky goodness. A new Laird Barron collection! Novels by Greg Egan, Walter Jon Williams, new Inspector Chen fun. You can even get Eclipse 1 as part of the sale. The deal is you have until midnight … Continue reading »

I told you all things were going to happen quickly with Eclipse! The manuscript will be soon winging it’s way towards worlds-best copyeditor Marty Halpern, and Night Shade have put up a page where you can pre-order the book. Advance reader copies are about three weeks away, and before you know it we’ll have books! … Continue reading »